Climate change: is Southeast Asia up to the challenge?: forest and climate change policy: what are the costs of inaction?

Forsyth, Tim
(2010)
Climate change: is Southeast Asia up to the challenge?: forest and climate change policy: what are the costs of inaction?
IDEAS reports - special reports,
Kitchen, Nicholas (ed.)
SR004.
LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Abstract

Deforestation and forest degradation are some of the main
contributors to anthropogenic climate change. Accordingly,
policies to arrest deforestation or increase forest areas are proposed
as important forms of climate change policy. This paper summarizes
current proposals for addressing the contribution of forests to climate
change, and the political problems of implementing these policies,
especially in developing countries. The paper argues that current
estimates of the likely sequestration benefits and costs of forest policies
need to be tempered according to the political barriers and need for
local consultation in formulating and implementing these proposals.
These problems are likely to be most felt concerning current plans for
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD).